Jonathan Lear

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1. Jonathan Lear

   Author of Aristotle: The Desire to Understand, Open Minded: Working Out the Logic of the Soul, Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life (The Tanner Lectures on Human Values)

2. Leo Strauss

   Author of Natural Right and History, Persecution and the Art of Writing, Thoughts on Machiavelli

3. Stanley Cavell

   Author of The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy, Must We Mean What We Say?: A Book of Essays, Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome: The Constitution of Emersonian Perfectionism (Paul Carus Lectures)

4. Alasdair MacIntyre

   Author of After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Second Edition, Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, The Unconscious: A Conceptual Analysis

5. Giorgio Agamben

   Author of The Open: Man and Animal, The Man Without Content (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics), Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy

6. Raymond Geuss

   Author of History and Illusion in Politics, Public Goods, Private Goods (Princeton Monographs in Philosophy), Outside Ethics

7. Charles Taylor

   Author of Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity, Philosophical Arguments, Philosophical Papers (Philosophical Papers, Vol 2)

8. Aristotle

   Author of The Basic Works of Aristotle, Aristotle: Selections, Categories ; On Interpretation

9. Gregory Vlastos

   Author of Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher, Plato II: Ethics, Politics, and Philosophy of Art, Religion: A Collection of Critical Essays

10. Jonathan Barnes

    Author of The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle, The Presocratic Philosophers

11. Bernard Williams

    Author of Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, Shame and Necessity (Sather Classical Lectures, Vol 57), Truth and truthfulness: an essay in genealogy

12. Sigmund Freud

    Author of The Ego and the Id, General Psychological Theory, Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety (Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud)

13. Martin Heidegger

    Author of The basic problems of phenomenology [Die Grundprobleme der Phänomenologie [GA 24]], Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit [Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes [GA 32]]

14. Richard Rorty

    Author of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

15. Martha C. Nussbaum

    Author of The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy, The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics

16. Michel Foucault

    Author of Ethics (Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984 , Vol 1), The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the College de France 1981--1982 (Lectures at the College de France), The Government of Self and Others: Lectures at the College de France, 1982-1983

17. Terence Irwin

    Author of Plato's Ethics

18. Judith N. Shklar

    Author of Ordinary Vices (Belknap Press), The Faces of Injustice (The Storrs Lectures Series)

19. Kwame Anthony Appiah

    Author of Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, The Ethics of Identity

20. Samuel Freeman

    Author of Rawls (Routledge Philosophers)